Thanks for the welcomes people, it's good to be here. You guys have been keeping me sane for months now while I've been lurking, now I'm very pleased to meet you all properly, in a virtual kind of way.
Cadellin ~ this bethelite was super old, I thinking he'd only just got wind of the Harry Potter craze. He's definitely not been living in the real world for some deades at least.
Breakfast for Champions ~ yeah that sounds about right!
PunkofNice ~ You crack me up, I love your posts. I say screw Thessalonians and join me in having a curry tonight!
Agent Zero ~ Thanks! I had my JW husband in hysterics with my note-taking. Which is the reason I did it really. I can get to him best through humour. Although he did jokingly say "Apostate in Row 12" a little too loudly during the luch break when I said I was paranoid that the people behind me were reading my notes
Here's the rest of my notes:
Dedication and Dunking Talk
A truly dreadful and slightly insulting illustration likening the candidates to homeless beggars on the street who had generously been given homes and wealth. (He meant in a spirital way, not physical; the WT society doesn't do charity ) Warning them not to go back to being homeless beggars ever again.
A story about a sister who got baptised whithout having a personal relationship with Jah. She relied on her own judgment . Not sure what happened to her?
Persecution is good, it makes us like diamonds. Look around, we all a big cluster of diamonds
We want the end to come today but Jah knows better
Kept referring to the world as 'Beggarly'
Experiences
These were really poor. I was expecting some wildly exaggerated experiences from super-pioneers or more people giving up work to 'do more'.
The people on the platform were apparently amazing examples because they managed to do 30 hours for one month this year.
We were then told to get off our butts and do the 30hrs again next year (or words to that effect)
Do The Will of God Whole-Souled
Talk for the 'Young Ones'.
If you have parents and grandparents in the troof you are in a very favourable position.
Stop coasting!
Would you like to go to a Theme Park and watch your parents go on all the cool rides while you stand and watch them (Hell Yeah!) Well don't do that in FS either. Participate, don't just watch your parents do it!
The young ones are like a big haul of fish that has been caught. You don't want to be a not-so-good fish that gets thrown away. If you are a good fish, Jah will smile (then eat you for dinner after you've slowly suffocated LOL I say swim away fast!).
You also don't want to be like a junk e-mail that gets deleted.
Interviews:
One smart teenage girl said "don't accept what people tell you without looking into it for yourself".
Peter (some names have been changed) learned the troof from the Bible Stories book. My favourite quote from Peter: "it's good to live a more simpler life".
That's all I've got folks, I slept through the rest !